{"id":36432,"date":"2023-05-12T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36432"},"modified":"2023-05-12T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:17:43","slug":"metal-detectorists-plotted-to-sell-coins-of-immense-historical-significance-worth-over-750000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36432","title":{"rendered":"Metal detectorists plotted to sell coins of &#8216;immense historical significance&#8217; worth over \u00a3750,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sky News has reported that two men have been convicted of conspiring to sell ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking and thought to have originated from the Herefordshire Hoard.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sky News writes:<\/p>\n<p>Two metal detectorists who hatched an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon coins worth more than \u00a3750,000 overseas are facing jail\u2026 convicted of conspiring to sell criminal property, namely ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jurors at Durham Crown Court also convicted both men of separate charges of possessing criminal property, thought to be part of a larger trove of 300 coins worth millions of pounds known as the Herefordshire Hoard. Just one third of the collection, unearthed in Leominster, has been recovered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/metal-detectorists-plotted-to-sell-coins-of-immense-historical-significance-worth-over-750-000-12867732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News has reported that two men have been convicted of conspiring to sell ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking and thought to have originated from the Herefordshire Hoard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36433,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions\/36433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}